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upheaval

[uhp-hee-vuhl] / ʌpˈhi vəl /


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Even if it was practical to unpick it all, she's acknowledged there's little appetite for major upheaval.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Alcove is entering a market that’s ripe for upheaval, Risher said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

You are a survivor and, given the kind of upheaval you have endured, you are living a different kind of American dream.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

During this evolutionary upheaval, large sections of genetic material were rearranged, bringing regions of chromosomes that had previously been separated into close proximity.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

There are great musical monuments to historical upheavals, but vanishingly few were written during the events they depict.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Later dubbed "quantitative easing", such upheavals included the 1980s savings and loan crisis, the first Gulf War, the Mexican peso crisis and - shortly after he had retired - the global credit crisis in 2008.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Still, Fratzscher said that Germany had undergone economic upheavals before, and urged politicians and companies to try to ensure the economy emerges stronger.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

With a series of major upheavals in the past month alone, Roberts has signaled that he is shifting to a two-minute offense.

From Slate ● May 13, 2026

Even the October Revolution in Russia in 1905, an event with thunderously far-reaching implications for society at large, had minimal impact on the contemporaneous upheavals in music.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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